 "Speech seen as attempt to swing party to right", The Times, 21 October 1974, p. 1Speech at Birmingham, 19 October 1974. The speech called for a "remoralization" of Britain but ended Joseph's chance of winning the Conservative leadership owing to criticism of Joseph's link between births to working-class mothers and promoting birth control.

 Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch. 2, Sect. 2 (possibly a story invented and circulated by those who found Aristotle's work beyond their comprehension)

 So the vital strength of his spirit won through, and he made his way far outside the flaming walls of the world and ranged over the measureless whole, both in mind and spirit. Lucretius, in De Rerum Natura, Book I, line 72

 Among the rainand lightsI saw the figure 5in goldon a redfiretruckmovingtenseunheededto gong clangssiren howlsand wheels rumblingthrough the dark city. ~ "The Great Figure" by William Carlos Williams